Who We Are - Team
Vice President of Operations and Intellectual Property
Simon Aspland, PhD, followed postdoctoral work at the University of Cambridge and University of California, San Diego, by co-founding Stell a biotechnology company. He then joined Acidophil LLC and managed biological testing at Dihedron a company incubated by Acidophil. In 2006, he relocated to Baltimore MD and co-founded Arginetix and ZuvaChem. He is an inventor on company- critical intellectual property from Stell, Dihedron, Arginetix and ZuvaChem and a joint inventor with scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Michigan State University. He manages Acidophil and ZuvaChem’s intellectual property drafting, prosecution patent applications and conducts analyses of competing IP. As VP of Operations he is responsible for recruiting advisors, establishing collaborations, drafting agreements, and planning.
Director of Research
Brian Green, PhD, received his doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco in Genetics. There he studied genomic damage and rearrangements associated with cancer progression with Dr. Joachim Li. His postdoctoral work focused on studying genome evolution, virulence, and basic biology of the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata with Dr. Brendan Cormack at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored peer-reviewed articles published in numerous journals, including Science. He has worked with as an intern with Acidophil since May of 2010 and became ZuvaChem’s full-time director of Research in September 2011. His key responsibilities include collating input from ZuvaChem’s advisors, managing ZuvaChem’s research, and communicating progress to management and investors.
Director of Finance
Kathy Miller, MBA, CPA, manages Acidophil’s current and future financials. She is a CPA and holds an MBA from Loyola College in Baltimore, where she concentrated in Finance. She has extensive experience in the areas of budgeting and financial reporting. She began her career as a staff accountant for Ernst & Young, spent eight years as Accounting Manager with a local publishing company, and was the Assistant Controller at Class Produce Group before joining Red Abbey, LLC, an affiliate of Acidophil. She directs the financial and legal affairs of ZuvaChem co-founded by Acidophil.